
As
it's July 4th here's something slightly off-topic. Back in the early 1980s,
Atari ruled the roost in video games. They'd started in 1972 and Pong was the
first creation followed the by the Atari VCS console (aka 2600). For a while
Atari was the fastest growing company in the US but in 1983 the whole video game
market crashed and Atari's consumer division was sold to Jack Tramiel, He was